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Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics of the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44. II. Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter

  • Authors: Asher Wasserman, Pieter van Dokkum, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Shany Danieli, Duncan A. Forbes, Roberto Abraham, Christopher Martin, Matt Matuszewski, Alexa Villaume, John Tamanas, and Stefano Profumo

2019 The Astrophysical Journal 885 155.

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Caption: Figure 6.

Posterior distributions for the scalar field mass in ﹩{10}^{-22}\,\mathrm{eV}﹩, the mass within the soliton core (in ﹩{M}_{\odot }﹩), and the ratio of the transition radius to the soliton core radius for the NFW (red, unfilled histograms) and ﹩\alpha \beta \gamma ﹩ (orange filled histograms) halo models. The FDM constraints are broadly similar between the two halo models, with both models favoring a core of mass ∼109 M. Both models show a mode in m22 of ∼2, with a broad posterior tail toward higher m22 values. For the NFW model, we see a second mode at high m22, corresponding to a negligible core mass and hence a near-zero transition radius.

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